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Luke Taylor in Bogotá

‘We can’t keep up’: Panama-Colombia border sees record number of migrants

Panama Colombia MSF Marta Hurtado United States
A young man with brown skin wearing a T-shirt and a bright blue cloth covering his head holds a girl, maybe 3, on his hip; she wears her long black hair beneath a baseball cap and a long-sleeved pink shirt. They appear to be in a crowd of people walking up a hill away from a river. Beyond them, out of focus, are canoes full of more people climbing.
Migrants walk near the town of Lajas Blancas, Panama, on 18 August. Photograph: Carlos Lemos/EPA

Medical non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attending to injured and sick migrants crossing the Darién Gap are increasingly unable to manage the record number of people taking the perilous journey, according to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the United Nation high commissioner for human rights.

In August 50,000 people took the week-long trek through the dense jungle connecting Colombia and Panama, outstretching the capacity of MSF’s staff at medical treatment posts on the Panamanian border.

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